Craftisian Blogs

My shop is my sacred space. When I cross the threshold into its confines, something changes within me. I move from a work-a-day wage slave to a cre...

These are rare and unusual photos of my work shop. It is never really this clean. I built this basement workshop about 15 years ago and never got i...

Ive actually taken off from the workshop and building the workbench this week. I ve been going to the doctors to figure out what’s going on with my...

Heres a link for a tool giveaway from popular woodworking and its free. http://popularwoodworking.upickem.net/engine/YourSubmission.aspx?contestid=...

“I’ve cut it twice, and it’s still too short!” That was a running comment in shop, back when I taught wood shop. Often we would here, “Aaarrrgggg!”...

Below, counter clockwise, an overvieuw of my small garage shop. This is my 5 in 1 (saw machine, moulder, mortiser, planer and jointer) combination....

I’m exhausted. I built this over the past 2 days which is a day too long. I wasn’t sure about the height and had problems making it fit the swing t...

I rarely get time to participate in the movements of the woodworking community at large, as everything seems to hit right at the worst moments with...

This past Christmas, we put together a woodworking kit for our 3-yr-old grandson. Now that we are babysitting, we have started putting it to use. H...

So it’s out that the 2015 WIA is in Kansas City, MO this year. Heres a link to their Facebook page. https://m.facebook.com/woodworkinginamerica?_rd...

Well, the velcro kit arrived yesterday afternoon but just as I got it installed a friend showed up and made me go golfing so I didn’t get to try it...

Warning: Lots of photos! Here’s my setup for sand shading one piece at a time. The marquetry has been preliminarily assembled on sticky shelf paper...